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REP. BERNADETTE “BH” HERRERA-DY                         
Bagong Henerasyon Party-list
Chair, Committee on Women and Gender Equality

WOMEN’S MONTH

1,733 PINAYS, 224 PREGNANT MOMS GOT HIV HOUSE PANEL CHAIR ON WOMEN NOTES

Since 2011 when the Department of Health started counting the number of pregnant women found living with HIV-AIDS, 224 child-bearing mothers were found to have been infected with the dreaded disease, Rep. Bernadette Herrera-Dy noted in the latest available official government figures.

“From January 2012 to December 2017, mother-to-child transmission involved 38 women, while 1,733 females got HIV from having sex with a male. These are worrying figures,” Herrera-Dy added, referring to the same DOH report as of December 2017.

Herrera-Dy is Chair of the House Committee on Women and Gender Equality.

To greatly reduce the spread of HIV among women, the Bagong Henerasyon Party-List congresswoman, asked the DOH and DSWD to deploy more health professionals to specific localities where the HIV-AIDS Registry data say interventions are urgently needed.

She said that with the Reproductive Health Law now fully-implementable, DOH and DSWD can work double time to attend to maternal health issues down to the barangay level.

“Single and married women must be armed with information and the various means of personal defense and treatments versus HIV.  1,733 HIV-infected females from 2012 to 2017 is still a significant number although the infection figures for the males is much higher,” the lady House Assistant Majority Leader said.

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